Saturday, July 20, 2024

Prophetic?

 Earlier this year, I watched a Netflix movie for which Obama was the executive producer. It was titled  "Leave the world behind".

The trailer: https://youtu.be/cMVBi_e8o-Y?si=6voIcF33NoTMoFzt.

It was really a creepy movie about a cyber attack which caused the Internet to go down, causing chaos everywhere as planes crashed, ships ended up on land, electric self driving vehicles stopped and on and on.

A realistic possibility of the future, in my book, as we become more reliable on online activity in every aspect of our existence.

That movie has remained at the back of my mind for quite some time, then on the 19th July 2024, the world got a taste. 

That was when, according to a company called Crowd Strike, a faulty software glitch occured which led to:

 'disrupting airlines, government services, hospital systems, and other businesses. A defect in the update crashed Microsoft's Windows, triggering its infamous "blue screen of death" for users relying on the operating system. 

Thousands of flights were canceled or delayed yesterday, including those with American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines. The outage disrupted emergency services and court systems in some areas, while some healthcare providers postponed nonessential surgeries. The United Parcel Service and FedEx also reported issues. Some billboards in New York City's Times Square went dark....".


I am no conspiracy theorist, but what if that isn't the truth but what actually happened was a test run by some entity somewhere and Crowd Strike came up with that explanation to deter worldwide panic?


Regardless, I still think the Obama movie is prophetic!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A truly scary movie. Authentic error or intentional - it matters not. We are totally vulnerable. I heard an account of the consequences in a hospital’s neo-natal dept and it was scary. Labcorp where I went for a test was affected up to 7/20. Blue screens. Good thing is I was not turned away. In and out in a flash👏🏽

Anonymous said...

Scary indeed. I'm sure certain countries are taking note. Bright idea ...not.